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SHERRY.
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C. MANZANILLA,
White Capsule
Fear dosi
J'er lasa,
...$12.00 $1.00
PALE
NATURAL SHERRY,
CC. SUPERIOR OLD DRY, PALE NATURAL SHERRY, Red Seal Capsule
$3.50 1.20
... 16.00
1.40
D. VERY SUPERIOR-OLD PALE DRY, Choice Old Wine, White Seal Capsule 18.00
B. EXTRASUPERIOROLD
PALE DRY, Very Finest Quality (old bottled), Black Seal Capsule...
1.50
27.00 2.25
B, C, and CC are excellent Dinner Wines, D and E are After-Dinner Wines of a very fine Vintage.
GUARANTEED SUPERIOR XERES WINES.
The following Wines, bottled in Europe, have been specially selected, and procured. from the celebrated firm of Messrs. GEG. G. SANDEMAN, SONS & Co., of London, Oporto and Xcres :----
LIGHT DRY
SOLERA
VERY PALE DRÝ
Per Jam Per bul
...$16.50 $1.40
.... 24.00
2.00
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1903.
NOTICE.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVÁNCE). DAILY-8:30 per Kukuth. WEEKLY-$13 per amrunt.
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Watch C. E. LeMunyon's "anniiuncement in | Keep tracks fC. E. LeMunjun's locus.-Adv. | Watch for C. E. LeMunyuu's locals in this since then we have sold the Diamante at s this paper.--Adul.
A MOST-interesting review of the present poli tical situation in the Far East, entitled "The
threatened decline and fall of Great Britain in China" reaches us from the offices of the Chin G.refle. The entire text of the publication
first appeared in the columns of that paper, and we await with interest the publication of Powers in China from the same source. inquiries into the growth and rise of the rival
THE ́Neill-Frawley Co. have concluded their season at Rangoon and left for Australia last week."
FROM the Hongkong & Whampoa Dock re- turns we see that no less than six Government
ships are at the Docks.
IT. is of interest to note that the Admiralty Dockyard contractors have just completed an aerial cable which as the length of the new
paper in a few days,--Adut,... :-
PLAGUE is now raging in Calcina, and the public is alarmed at suggestion to the chairman of the Munici:ality disc. ntinue the services of the plugue Staff More than 30,000 people have died in Calcutta from plague since 198, the deaths now are abous 190 a day, and there are no signs of improvement WHAT proved to be a very serious fire brakes the Bank would settle) and this amount, as out at Bangkok on the night of the 16th inst.
we'shall, of course, be unable to take it up, we
price which will improve the position in our books by about $100 000. Our debt to our Bankers is now reduced to $138,316,18 as against $177,863 16 on: 31st December, and we only owe $20400 in the British S. S. Invest ment Trust, in onion, against £50,000 last year. in reward to this loan of £20,000, which.... stands at $128,571.41 in the accounts, I may explain that last year we bought sterling for it forward 10 next month (which was as far ahead
1 st 80 per squarter is charged for postage.ir is strange that some residents of Richmond dock and is so arranged as to deposit the The usual games of chance indulged in by the have resold at a profit of roughly $13,000. We Read do that take objection to the heaps of material taken from the basin at either end of Siamese during the period of Songkran were could not, however, resettle exchange for this
The postage on the weakly is to any part of the
world is 30 cents per quarter. Single Copies Daily, ton cents: Weekly, twenty-
live Vents,
BIRTH.
rubbish and filth strewn along the side walks and corners of the thoroughfare. The nuisance has been permited to continue unabated for
authorities stepped in and prosecuted negligent and unclean householders, who cannot be un- aware of the acts of their servants.
On the 21st instant, at "The Laurels," many months and it is quite time the sanitary will return to resume their connection with the kerasine lamp over the centre of the gaming later on, against which we have the above..
Campong Java Road, Singapore, the wife of LAWRENCE PERREAU, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
At the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, by the Rev. S. S. Walker, on Saturday, 18th April, Miss HILDA BECKER, eldest daughter of Mrs. E. BECKER, proprietress of the Hotel De L' Europe, to Mr. OTTO EICHHOLZ, of Hangkok,
The Hongkong Celegraph
Hongkong, Wednesday, APRIL 29, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL.
C. E. LeMunyon has an announcement to make to you very shortly; watch for it-Idet,
THIRTY-SEVEN relieved. British bluejackets arrived from Swatow yesterday by the Hang Sang.
Tue Straits Times learns that the case of Mrs. Blanche Waddell of Saigon should have been at ended to by the doctors rather than the police. Mrs. Waddell was in a delica'e.condi- tien when she emitted the extraprdinary acts which led to her arrest as reported on our columns. The sympathies of the community will be with the lady and her bust and, who is an officer of the Foreign Legion in French Indo-China.
In a lengthy article on the state of the western provinces of China a well known Oriental lady says that during a recen' journey to the interior one heard "nothing but denunciations of the new tariff regulations, which the merchants! met unanimously pronounced must ruin British trade, the one hope for which was that other nations never would consent to them. No word of praise, or other than wholesale condemnation, could succeed in hearing of the Mackay Treaty. Since then the China THE M. M. steamer Luas formerly on the Indo-
Association in Shanghai have passed a resolu- China, but now on the Australian line, has had tion in support of it-it is true by a narrow her name changed to Dambio,
majority,"
THREE paintings, in that portion of Windsor Castle where the public are not admitted, have been mysteriously slashed.
MR. John Roberts, the famous billiard player and ex-champion who is accompanied by his daughter, is expected here from Singapore by
the next German mail.
THE contract for the construction of the 2.00 Shanghai tramways has at last been signed 2.25 with the concessionaires in Lundon and the
work of construction will shortly commence.
... 24.00
FULL GOLDEN
37.00
PALE DRY NUTTY...
30.00
FINE OLD BROWN
10.00
2.50
3.50
MADEIRA.
GOOD FINE
Per day, i'er laut. ...$16.50 $1.40 27.00 2.25
MR. 1. N. Ferrers who was recently in Hong- kong and left the Colony in connection with the new Straits Echo has had a disagreement with the editor and announces his intention of going to law in connection with the matter.
FROM eighty to a hundred additional 'rikishas, A. S. WATSON & Co., old and new, are being put on the Singapore
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streets daily. This fact is evidenced by the increasing number of vehicles plying for hire. The quality of the pulleris gradually improving
Ir the Sanitary Board does not take action regarding an abominable stench which has been noticeable for several days past at the lower end of Glenealy there will soon be an outbreak of typhoid or some other equally serious disease,
THE British schooner ivethah was sold priva tely last week by Messrs. Powell & Co. for Mr. Shaik Adam
de
THE death is announced of Mr. Chas F. Tremlett, for many years H. B. M. Consul at Saigon. The late Mr. Tremlet, who died on April 11, was at the head of the firm of W. G. Hale and Co. Some thirty years ago he was in Singapore, with Mr. G. H. Dana, in the firm of T. Hodgson and Co. leaving that firm when Mr. Dana left the Colony. An inspection of the 1864 Directory shows the name of Mr. Tremlett as a clerk in the firm of Hutchinson and Co., of Flint-st, which makes his connection with the East extend to nearly forty years. In that year he was living at Greenhill, Chancery
I ane.
the works. THERE is a tumour that the Revd. Fathers Soares and Victal, who are it present at Mucao
Portuguese mission at Singapore. The Revd Father Lau, the Chinese priest, is expected soon from Macao to take up duties as organist
Singapure, is the room of the late Senhor. of the Portuguese Church of St. Joseph, Barreito..
A REPORT by the French Consul at Shanghai deals. with the recent share speculations at that port with which our readers will be familiar, He concludes by 'stating that the Shanghai financial market, for which the year '1902 has been the most disastrous in memory, is now entirely in the hands of certain brokers whose gambling practices keep away from the bourse all sensible operators.-L&C. Express.
A TRIP on the Russian railway lines in Man churia ought to prove welcome to persons craving for excitement. Just now the lines in question are infested with a strong gang of robbers who style themselves "Bluebeards," As a result of their depredations, the Russians are said to have informed the Chinese authori- ties that they would, when withdrawing their troops from Shenking, leave a strong force of
artillery behind in order to prevent the lines from being torn up.
TALKING about the troubles in Northern Siam last year, the Courrier de tuiphong says that Siamese troops pillaged the village of Tapha and wrecked the premises of the Bombay Burma Trading Company. Four Frenchmen and two Engli-hmen, employed by the Com. captured and shnt. Another house, also belong ing to tie fombay-Burmah Trading Company, the British flag being torn down. Thus is was sacked, two women being massacred, and
history made in Indo-China.
pany, and a certain number of natives, were
SOME'imaginative persen or persons who ought
being played by a number of men and women mostly women-in a private house and a
year on equal terms, the Banks charging about dispute arose in the course of which a large so in this way we shall have to face a shortage one-sixteenth down for every month forward, table was accidentally overturned and, being profit. This was the best we could do and alight, it set fire to the room, and before the although it is impossible to avoid some less, fire could be overcome it had spread to adjoin- ing buildings with the result that 20 acres of reduced it to a minimum which, taking we have, as you see, by settling forward, houses were soon in ruins and two people had the worse possible rate, cannot excecil $12.000 The damage and may be much less. Wo have thus aid off our debts to a large extent and are left with
deatli.
been burned to estimated at Tcs, 1,0:0 000.
Our
three steamers in every way suited to our
M. ROBERT DE CAIX, who 15 acting as special correspondent of the Journal des Debits out
business and which stand in our books at a here, writes thus from Bangkok :-" The
cost a good deal below what we should have French are almost non-existent here,
to pay for similar boats to day. We cannot, situation is contemptible. Moreover, France however, always depend entirely on our Bankers cannot hope to win the goodwill of Siam with-for funds, although, of course, we can give out imperilling what is much more important is still $5 per share uncalled, on over 40
ample security for our borrowings and as there namely, the security of Indo-China. Therefore France should not try merely to win the good-up. If this call be well met, it will bring us in. new shares, we must now proceed to call that will of Siam, but should be fi in about her $125,000; but if not, we shall be obliged to interests. A wound which can be heled and otherwise dispose of the shares in order to get done with is less irritating in the long run than in as much money as we can and reduce our constant friction. In the Laos region France indebtedness as far as possible. That is all, should copy British policy in Kelantan and gentlemen, that I think I can tell you about Tringannu, modifying it to meet the necessities of the case."
our present position and future prospects, Although there is so much competition on living in it for all at proper rates the Manila Line just now, there is a good
the Osaka Exhibition, gives same interesting THE K’obé Herald, in an article dealing with
statistics. The returns of attendance, says our contemporary, afford unmistakable evidence of the success of the undertaking, no less than 1,312,3.6 people having vis ted the Exhibition day the public were first admitted) to the from the is of the success of March (the 16th of April, white 280,594 have visited the Aquarium and Fisheries Department at-
Sakai during the same period So fix the
been 66,931 (of which 325 were foreigners) and highest number of visitors in any one day has the lowest 9049 (45 being foreigners). The smallest on March 15th, both days being Sun- greatest number attended on April 12th, the
day. Foreign visitors were in greatest force' on April 13th, when 347 attended.
a knockout
to be attached to the Canaid Contingent of Le1.'s a mistake to suppose that joss' is a Temps have circulated a report in Singapore that war has been declared between Russia considerable credence. That it is a flagrant and lapan. The report has, moreover, gained
piece of rubbish is abundantis proved by the fact that salutes were exchanged between Fort Canning and the Russian men-of-war now lying in the Singapore Roads. The least diplomatically versed amongst us would hardly expect us to salute the enemy of our ally, says the Straits Times.
In the Bombay Plague Laboratory experiments have been made as to the part that fleas play and Elkington have been making exhaustive in the distribution of plague. Doctors Listen
experiments and the results obtained roint conclusively to the fact that the rat flea becomes infected with the bacillus and is cap ble of spreading the disease. This has been proved beyond doubt and it widens the field of infection immensely. When the plague-infected rat dies the fleas leave it and attach themselves to other rats, or failing them to human beings. The experiments at Bombay have shown that WITH the assistance of the authorities at Kew plague-infected rats biting a healthy rat convey in supplying suitable seed and cultural direc- the disease in it, and it is a strong scientifictions, and of the Colonial Office, experiments surmise that a human being would become in cotton growing could be started in every one of the colonies within three months from now, Nearly every colony possesses a botanical garden, and some have more than one, and at word from the Colonial Office an acre of land in each could be planted with cotton. The records obtained from these experiments would be ef great value, and no doubt many tropical colonies, with a distinctly marked wet season, would prove suitable for the cultivation of the colton plant. ...
A CHEE & CO., ist ne kadar of Orelsanderd, singapore, infected likewise.
祥
利 廣
17A, QUEEN'S ROAD,
who bought her (or a native merchant of Cal- cutta, 10 increase his fleet of schooners employ. ed in transporting cocoanuts from Ceylon to Calcutta.
MR. Robert Yeats, a prominent resident of Penang, has left that Settlement for Europe for
FURNITURE good. At the time of his departure Mr. Yeais
DEALERS:
DRAWING-ROOM,
DINING-ROOM,
and BED ROOM
FURNITURE.
ELECTRO-PLATED,
GLASS, and
CHINA WARES.
PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF
FILTERS,
ROCHESTER LAMPS,
WHITE TURKISH TOWELS.
COUNTERPANES.
COOKING RANGES,
KITCHEN UTENSILS, and
HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES,
PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT.
DEVELOPING and PRINTING
« UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.
GOOD WORK.
PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 8th July, 1902.
CARMICHAEL
CLARKE,
(728d
AND
CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND
SHIPBUILDERS, SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.
REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
TELEGRAMS: CARMICHAEL," Hongkong. A. B. C. Code, 4th Edition,
A: I Code.
Lieber's Standard Code,
TELEFONE, 337.
Hongkong, 20th March, 1903.
Essse
THE Beef to drink in the tropics in the Best
made in the tropice-SAN MIGUEL.
was president of the local Chamber of Com- merce and had been connected with the Settle- ment since 1883, as member of the firm of Boustead & Co. He was popular in every way, besides being a keen sportsman.
IT is understood that Mr. Malcolm Duncan, the well known contractor in Penang and Perak, and brother of Mr. Chesney Duncan editor of the Straits Echo, has given up Government work owing to the large increase of mining business, and his projected departure for Europe next month, on a well earned holiday.
THE Shanghai Mercury is informed that the new steam pilot boat, the A. A. Bisbee, which was built to the order of the Shanghai Licensed Pilots in Hongkong, but which has been in the hands of the electricians there since its arrival,
owing to the plant from home not having arrived, is now about ready to go into com- mission and that a trail trip will be run seme-
THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals:-
Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and
Godown Company
...$100
Wong Shan Tak Tong... J. J. dos Remedios & Co. 1. H. Cox
E. A. Irving
Carl Mittell
R. Marien
+
50
25
JO
19
IO
10
10
G. Fenwick & Co....
10
N. Mody & Co.
10
10
*10
10
10
A. G. Morris ...
E. Niedhardt... W. Hutton Poils Noronha & Co.
AN American scientist, Mr. Lewis, announces the approach of the partial destruction of the world by ice, The South Pole, as is well koown, is surrounded by a vast continent which, acting as a barrier, effectually prevents the floating away of the ice which it encloses, As a result this ice is continually increasing in bulk, and now forms a wall which is calculated to be 17,000 ft. high at Robertson-Bay, while in other places it is even higher. In the opinion A CORRESPONDENT at Peking writes to
of Mr. Lewis, this enormous mass will, in the Shanghai paper under date the 18th inst.: near future, break under the ever-increasing "We were at Machiapu on the 15th, and stood strain of the pent-up ice, and will be pre- on the platform as the Emperor and Em. cipitated into the ocean, sweeping northwards press detrained. There was only one other with an irresistible rush. Crossing the European there beside the railway officials Equator, it will strike the cost of Africa. be we had a long and close view the Emperor tween the Gulf of Guinea and Cape Verde, looks thin and sad and very shy, the Empress whence, continuing its course, it will over. full of life and energy; she has a big square whelm Great Britain and Ireland, France, face, long eyes, and a double chin and florid, Spain, and Portugal, Germany and Russia complexion, which may have been rouge L burying nearly the whole of Europe under a Lien-ying (the chief eunuch) I was much formidable ice-pack. struck with; he is decidedly-good-looking,
word.
We
bave still the best hold of it and we have net and overcome similar opposition in the past. In thesespect we are well equipped as canipared with the other boats on the Line,
economical consumers of coal, which is one of ours being chiefly new and modern boats and
the principal items of our expenditure. We are now landing passengers at Manila in two
days from Hongkong and the other fast boats
twice or three times as much coal. We are quite satisfied with our position under present conditions and can only hope that our compet tors will soon realise the folly and uselessness of their present action and make a return to fair and reasonable rates of freight possi' le. It is disappointing that after the lapse of several years the export trade from Manila to this port should, instead of returning to its
vanished; but this is a state of things that former dimensions, with the exception of an occasional shipment of hemp, have completely
can only do the same at an expenditure of
Chinese word," says a retired ship's carpenter
among the odds and ends of interesting to a representative of a home paper. I've tra- velled a good bit in the Orient in my time, and information I picked up was
cannot last, the unrast in the interior must of the genuineness of 'joss as a Chinese disappear before long, and with it will come a Chinamea only now joss when demand for Chinese labour, which, to all, who they come in contact with Europeans. A thoroughly understand the Condition of things d Chinese priest in 1tankow told me that there
over there, it is quite clear is ab olutely indis was no such word in Chinese. He explained pensable not only to the commercial prosperi' that the word was a corruption of the Spanish of the Philippines but to the social well-be ng word 'Dios,' and had come into use through and comfort of foreign residents in thos the missionaries. Many carly missionaries, he islands. That in turn will be followed by at said. were Spanish priests, and their pronuncia-improvement in business all round and is tion of Dios' was speedily corrupted into particular by a revival of shipments o 'joss' by native tongue and applied to the produce and of the export tride from Chinese deities. It's only on the Chinese Manila to China. in which this Company seaboard that the word is understood by China- must be the first to share. As you are all
aware a claim has been made against the s Zafiro for the loss of a box said to contain 550,00 principally in United States Gold notes, The case comes on for hearing before a special jury to-morrow, so it is not advisable for me to make any comments here. I will now proceed to move the adoption of the report and accounts, and will ask some one to second the resolution. After that has been done I shall be glad to answer any questions that may be asked.
men.
Celestials had no knowledge of it."
In the interior, the priest told me, the
Keep your eyes open for C. locals,-Advi.
LeMunyon's
CHINA AND MANILA S.s. co.
ANNUAL MEETING.
There being no questions the Chairman moved, and Dr. Noble seconded, that the report and accounts as presented be adopted and passed.
The motion was unanimously carried
The twentieth ordinary general meeting of shareholders in the China and Manila Steam- ship Company, Litnited, was held at the offices of the general managers at noon to-day when there were present the Hon. R. Shewan (chair- man), Messrs. N. A. Siebs, D. E. Brown, and J. H. Lewis (consulting committee), Dr. Noble, Messrs, A. G. Gordon, J. R. Michael, G. T.
Mr. J. R. Michael proposed that Messrs. N. Veitch, C. Klinck, H. F. Campbell, A. A. Cordeiro, G. Somerville, G. Moffati, C. Aeleted to the Consulting Committee.
A. Siebs, D. E. Brown and J. H. Lewis be re- Tomes, P. C. Potts, A. Babingtos, A. V. Apcar, Craddock, Fung Wa Chun, Ho Fook, Siu Un and others,
The Chairman said:--Gentlemen, with your permission we will take the report and accounts, copies of which have been in your hands for some time, as read. It is with great regret that we have to lay such an unfortunate result
CONSULTING COMMITTER,
Mr. P. C. Potts secon 'ed, and the motion was agreed to.
AUDITORS.
seconded by Mr. N. A. Siebs, Messrs. T. Arnold, On the proposition of Mr. D. E. Brown, - and W. II. Falts were re-elected auditors.100/_sumpt
The Chainm n-am obliged, to you for your attendance, gentlemen, and am sorry l
of the steamers' work before you, but the year cannot announce that dividend warrants will was a most difficult and disappointing one; in be ready to-morrow-not this year. spite of our efforts, a war of rates broke out after the advent of the Japanese steamers on
time next week. NEWS has reached Lendon from Berne to the effect that the Swiss Federal Council is con gives one the impression of being very intelli. How, is an indemnity to be collected from the line and under all the circumstances we for the development abroad and in England of gent, and looks more alive and alert than the the Swiss watch and trinket trade. The stress
usual Chinese official. The pageant, too, was a grand sight I am most glad not to have
sidering the advisability of taking some steps
of both German and American competition has beca severly felt in Switzerland during the last year or two, and there is an idea that the Federal Council should take the matter up for
the benefit of the Swiss people, and should send several Commissioners abroad to report concerning it.
missed."
THE Church Militant had an innings the other day at Swatow when one of its foreign spiritual with knuckledusters and such-like did to directors led a band of catéchumènes, armed
devotion, into the public market of a neigh THE commercial field as well as that of inter- bouring town, and arrested a man whom he national friendship is open to all nations, and had sued in the district magistrate's Court. it may be that Japan has more intinuate claims The captive was lodged in the sub-prefect's | than France. There seems every reason why, yarren, and subsequently taken over by the for her own interests as well as for those of district magistrate. Such extraordinary con- her Ally, she should exert herself to cement duct all but provoked a serious riot, as the existing ties with Siam. By doing the man captured is a member of a powerfalan might build up a remunerative trade and help and a member also of one of the mission in the to establish an independent friend of incalcnl place. Classmen are clansmen, and converts able value. The Japanese Minister's sugges are but human, says a correspondent of a tion for the establishment; of a direct line of Shanghai paper. Even Calvin.could not suc- steamers between Japan and Bangkok is cessfully work policing as a function of the specially worthy, of pole...Japan Gazette, Church.
Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer THE
mads in the tropica-SAN MIGUEL-
THE Beer to drink in the trapick is the Beer
made in the tropic-5AN MIGUEL
people whose rice harvest has failed, whose opium harvest has failed, and whose sweet potatoes are now only fit to be given to the pigs? Even their peanuts are this year half the usual s'se. if only the Governments of Europe, says Mrs. Archibald Little in the Manchester Guardium, instead of demanding money, which the poorest, had but demanded the right for always in the end comes out of the pockets of
foreigners to join in partnerships with Chinese, the foreigner supplying the improved ma chinety and part of the capital, or the right to mine, or to run light railways though this teeming population, then foreigners, would probably in the end have gained much more, whilst the people would have been enriched by foreign mercantile enterprise, instead of, as now, being increasingly embittered against foreigners. All classes must view with dislike. the foreigner for whose indemnities they are taxed to the verge of starvation, and with an additional personal bitterness that other for eigner who collects it for him....
“HE Beer to drink in the tropics ja abo Reèr made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL
I am
THE PLAGUE.
to-day so further cases of bubonic plague During the twenty-four hours ended at noon making 404 since January 1st, were reported.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE. Indian (Arrateon Apear) ist prox.. Américan (Korea) 2nd prox. Indian (Irisang) 5th prox. Erench (Salasic) 5th prox. Canadian (Emprias of Japan) 6th prox. German (Stuttgart) 1180 prox.
are sur, tised that the result is not worse. sorry to say that this state of things still con- tinues; but on the other hand, our own parti cular position his greatly improved this year. We are now free from the "Pool," which you will see from the accounts cost or rather will st us, when everything is finally adjusted.
though rates are still very low, we can, at any over $30,000, which is a dividend in itself, and
rate. now keep what we earn for ourselves. We have also had to stand the heavy charge of interest, which, as you will, see from the figures given you later on, should be much less this yr. Passengers have been plentiful and we have more than held our own is that respect. Nor is cargo from this side scarce; it is from place, and when cargo begins again to come Manila where the great falling off Fas taken
forward from there, as it used to do in former years, our prospects will be greatly improved.
The C..P. R. Co.'s Empress of Japan arrived, As regards our position Ginancially, it is Yokohama 4 p.m. 28th inst. and left at.7.p also much better now than as it appears same day for Nagasaki where she is due at 9. by the accounts on 31st December list, aspm. 29th inst
HE Deer to drink in the tropics is the
The A. L. S. N. Co.'s as Maria, Valerie left Shanghai for this port this morning. ...
The P., & O, S, N. Ca's ... Bombar
this port to-day, and may be expected hers on Singapore for this part 28th inst; 3 p.m. -
about the 6th prox. The N. G. La Tschia left Singapore, for
made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL Beer to drink in the tropics in the Beet
made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL,